Aniko Koleshnikova is an artist from Latvia. She can create amazing sculptures using polymer clay, which she shapes and colors into vibrant and enchanting depictions of animals, both real and fantastic. Koleshnikova often uses her skills to decorate the covers of personal journals. Each cover suggests that the inner life of the owner is a mysterious land of depth and complexity. You can see more of her work at Bored Panda.
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In 2012, celebrity physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked in an interview what he regarded as the most astounding fact in the universe. He's an astrophysicist, so he necessarily thinks on a grand scale--one that intersects his discipline with that of philosophy. His answer resonates with many people as it connects the basic chemical and physical origins of the universe with the individual human experience.
Gavin Aung Than, the artist behind Zen Pencils, takes quotations of famous people and presents them in comic form. It took him a while to work out how he would express Tyson's astounding fact, but he found a way to show a visual expression of Tyson's expression. You can read it all here.
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May the Fourth be with you.
What does that mean? Today, you will encounter many Star Wars fans expressing this sentiment to you. Why? To find out, you need to consult someone closely associated with the Star Trek science fiction franchise. UCB Comedy recruited Tim Russ, who played the Vulcan officer Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager. Russ explains:
You see, May the Fourth celebrates a movie called The Star Wars. In The Star Wars, the Fourth is a powerful energy that binds the galaxy together. Using the Fourth, powerful magicians called Space Druids are able to do crazy things, like pick something up or tell people that they're wrong.
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Sir, I sincerely wish that chickens turn into huge emu birds and kick down the door of your bathroom while you are sitting on the toilet.
That’s what the phrase in the picture above means. It’s an Australian way of wishing someone bad luck. And if huge birds smashed their way into my bathroom whilst I was on the toilet, then I would indeed feel unlucky. So it fits.
The travel blog Hotel Club previously brought us 10 strange idioms from around the world. More recently, it worked with artist Jared Atkins to illustrate 10 Australian idioms that are perplexing to outsiders.
Only the proper feet will do. Keep swiping left. Eventually, they’ll be a woman for you, Prince. Also try OK Cupid and Plenty of Fish for the right princess. Use the slipper as your profile picture.
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WOW Sports produces what it calls the Aqua Table. It’s an inflatable bar with a big central cooler. You can put ice in and drain the cooler through a port. It would be ideal for a pool or lake party. Just add ice and drinks in the center.
There’s an anchor and anchor line. That could come in handy once if you’ve had a bit too much and get swept away down to the deep end of the pool.
To promote Salta Beer, the ad agency Ogilvy Argentina designed a tooth implant that functions as a bottle opener. It then had a dentist screw the implants into the jaws of three rugby players who had lost teeth in action.
They are totally effective. In fact, we should get bottle openers on both sides of our mouths so that we can open two bottles at the same time!
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Grammarly, a grammar and spellchecking program, can search through text to find more than 400 different types of errors. Recently, to demonstrate the capabilities of Grammarly, the company that makes it examined 150 reader comments that were at least 50 words long in the discussion boards of each official NFL team website. It then ranked which teams had the most philologically-challenged fans.
Fans of the Washington Redskins won the contest with approximately 16.5 mistakes for every 100 words. Go Redskins!
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And, as you can see, it's quite accurate. Microsoft built How Old Do I Look?--a free browser application that guesses how old you are and your gender from a photo.
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Welcome to fabulous Las Vegas! But if you see this iconic sign as you're driving, you're not in Las Vegas. In fact, most of the famous landmarks and the big casinos aren't in Las Vegas at all.
They're in Paradise, which isn't even a town. It's an unincorporated area in Clark County. A quarter of a million people live there, but it has no municipal government.
How did this happen? CGP Grey explains in another of his entertaining and informative videos.
Japanese Twitter user Shinrashinge uses everyday materials as the clay into which he shapes highly realistic images. He’s done several works with cigarette ash and tobacco, including this nicely arranged Pikachu.
Beat Down Boogie, the genius filmmakers who previously brought us two Super Mario Bros. war films, jumps into the Marvel Comics Civil War storyline that will hit the big screen next year as Captain America: Civil War.
Kung Fu Avengers: Civil War shows the story as a 70s-era Hong Kong martial arts film, complete with grainy visual resolution, English-language dubbing, and over-the-top combat scenes.
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I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something special about the way that Korean artist Puuung draws this couple that is so heartwarming. The pair go through the everyday activities of life at home: cooking and cleaning, dozing together on the couch, and enduring the occasional sorrow of real life.
I suppose that’s what’s so endearing about them. I can readily see my wife and I as the characters. You can see more drawings of them at Design Taxi.
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UX stands for “user experience.” It’s a field of web development that examines how ordinary people would understand and use a website. There’s demand for UX professionals because many developers have difficulty thinking like an outsider with limited understanding of the website. UX consultants can help shape websites that are user-friendly.
Richard Littauer, a UX expert, says that one of the principles of his field is that “the user is drunk.” A website should be designed simple enough that a drunk person could navigate it without difficulty. In exchange for money, Littauer will get very drunk and evaluate your website while screencasting his reactions.
I’m a librarian and UX is a very big topic in professional conferences and publications these days. For libraries, UX includes both websites and in-person experiences. A shrewd library director could do well by hiring patrons to get completely snockered and then attempt to use the library’s resources. It would be a great test of the library staff’s customer service skills.
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French designer Frédéric Hamerlak developed this unique staircase that looks like it belongs in a science fiction movie. LEDs light up the plastic sheets that serve as stairs, which are connected to only the wall. They are angled horizontally in a zigzag pattern. A panel resembling a railing runs alongside them. When they light up in the darkness, the visual effect is quite stunning. You can see more photos at Home Crux.
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